slight correction regarding the reason for the machines to exist in-world the majority of the machines were originally designed to terraform earth after the biosphere was destroyed. The humans created by this terraforming system, unaware of the reason for the machines' existence, began to hunt the machines for parts, and so the subsystem of the terraforming system responsible for designing and constructing the machines began creating more dangerous ones that are designed to defend the rest.
@juanarredondo97632 жыл бұрын
and thus, evolution, but with a twist
@d4s0n2822 жыл бұрын
bruh guess I got spoiled but I guess its my fault reading these oop
@antwango2 жыл бұрын
@@d4s0n282 lol not really really spoilt... unless the paragraph stops you playing horizon fullstop! thats just one bit of detail of the world....
@firekeeperiswaifu30922 жыл бұрын
That is correct but it should also be told that those defense mechanisms only started after the subsystem became independent of the overall system.
@SirKolass2 жыл бұрын
Too bad GAIA had to introduce humans to the world, earth and all animals would be more than fine by themselves, humans are basically a slow version of the faro plague. Humans are so shtty they even started to disrupt her work lol Hephaestus is the real mvp.
@theorigamiking87832 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of the most creative game concepts ever.
@ZZ-vl5nd2 жыл бұрын
Seriously, one of my favorites. I was sad to finish the first one. Waiting eagerly for the PC port of forbidden west.
@matheussanthiago96852 жыл бұрын
right? and to think that they did the world-building backwards like the original concept was ''a game where you fight mecha-dinosaurs with bow and arrow'' then they worked everything else from there, and ended up with one of the best world in game of the last decade kinda of reminds me of How Miura (rest in peace) come up with the world of Berserk, if first thought of Guts with this huge hunk of metal as sword, and then build a world around with mosters that required just sword to be fought
@samuelvabddraig27962 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you thought so, but I couldn't help thinking the opposite. With advanced technology from a forgotten time roaming the land you could really let your imagination run wild, but it's just a one to one with metal animals, basically Digimon.
@J-manli2 жыл бұрын
@@kishirisu1268 I mean is logic all that necessary to have fun? Plus the game's story and lore does explain why the robot animals exist in the first place fairly well.
@sand_sand73042 жыл бұрын
The weirdest it is not
@malwareinc2 жыл бұрын
I love how detailed the machines are, especially with the textures.
@neo-filthyfrank13472 жыл бұрын
Yeah it generally seems designing machines is a lot more difficult than designing organic lifeforms on account of all the small parts that require more detail to drawn and really needing to know what all of those are for.
@logan317b2 жыл бұрын
It's so cool to look at all the details in-game after you killed a machine, especially the giant ones
@neo-filthyfrank13472 жыл бұрын
@@logan317b On second thought I hope this channel doesn't do more mainstream speculative evolution stuff like this. After watching the video the concept seems executed fairly poorly in addition to the creature designs being far, far too reminiscent of specific contemporary earthly life, which seems to follow when larger companies try their hand at this stuff. The art usually defaults to someone who barely even knows or cares about this sort of thing and thus doesn't understand the intricacies enough to turn in an intelligent product.
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 ..... I beg your pardon? I know the video doesn't explain everything, but what makes you think it was executed poorly? The machine design, I mean? Because it has too many animals you're familiar with? Are you kidding me? Oh, you wanna know WHY they look that way. That is a valid question, but it's answer is a big fat spoiler. Plus, animal designs are generally better for their kind of long-term operation, especially since they fill their former niches. There is another reason, though.
@floridaman65722 жыл бұрын
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I’ve played the game and while I would prefer the machines to be less “animalistic” to call the product unintelligent is a stupid statement in it of itself. The purpose of the game wasn’t to create a well thought out speculative ecosystem but rather to bring the consumer joy in an immersive open world, where combat and exploring are the sole purpose of the game. As for your point on big companies, id like to mention that every company is out there to make a buck or two, if you’ve ever played the game then you’d know that there definitely was extra thought put into the product other than just money. Strangely enough this is not the first comment I’ve seen from your channel. It seems as though from the other comments that you have made across the internet that you are very critical of other’s work. Being a contrarian isn’t cool, sometimes it’s just better to enjoy something instead of complaining about it.
@Nukesnipe2 жыл бұрын
I always liked how the different categories of machines in HZD followed the themes of recon, acquisition, terraforming and transportation. Lancehorns mine raw materials from the ground, which get transported by Behemoths, while Shell-Walkers transport already packaged goods. And in-game, it even points out areas where transport-class machines will follow a supply route to and from different areas, usually near Cauldrons. While this gives the image of a migrating herd, it also makes perfect sense considering what their purpose is. Then you have machines like the Snapmaw, whose purpose is to regulate water supplies and ensure that they don't become toxic, while Stormbirds were directly responsible for repairing the atmosphere.
@edoardoprevelato65772 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but those snapmaws could keep the water in check without gangbanging me with their ranged attacks anytime i cross a goddamn puddle
@ChrissieBear2 жыл бұрын
@@edoardoprevelato6577 Blame Hephaestus. xD
@edoardoprevelato65772 жыл бұрын
@@ChrissieBear i do and it didn't end well for him/it
@juanarredondo97632 жыл бұрын
@@ChrissieBear blame humans for attacking first, hephaestus just did what it was progamed to do, build machines for many reasons
@ThomasTRL2 жыл бұрын
@@juanarredondo9763 Hephaestus was programmed to not hurt humans, but the eradication signal corrupted him, just like it did with hades.
@imlewishehe2 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to see a video like this, where it's an animal documentary within the world of Horizon. It's just a perfect setting for such a thing. I can't wait for an inevitable video on Horizon: Forbidden West, and the many new machines in the new regions
@nenmaster52182 жыл бұрын
Telltale Atheist, i recommend him. Especially his Kat Kerr Videos if you love to laugh.
@alansokelisatruehero8520 Жыл бұрын
the first wasn't that bad but Forbidden west was HOLY fk WOKE. i literally lost track on who was binary and who gay lover was whos and how they identified. When the Trans Politics was thrown in and the male fighter that wanted to wear female armor they used american partisan political quotes like the SJW writer and developer it was only another small step to have my video game lecture me about pronouns. some might love woke hypocrisy and this game is for them. enjoy. ill play awesome non woke AF games.
@imlewishehe Жыл бұрын
@@alansokelisatruehero8520 Take your dogshit takes, and gross views elsewhere
@alansokelisatruehero8520 Жыл бұрын
@@imlewishehe gross? dog poo? heterosexuality is disgusting? criticizing woke politics injected into everything is very legit and only woke karens get triggered like you over it. everything triggers groomers these day. can you please at least stop with the small children, that is universally disgusting and shunned, you all should be ASHAMED sexualizing other peoples children. the disturbing part is lefties self righteousness. now go protest stand up comedy that triggers you and report this for hurting your feelings like i know you want to, having to know people don't approve of you fondling kids is necessary, hopefully shaming groomers will protect at least one that you will target later.. disgusting. truly twisted are those that target small children and call it social justice, so when you call us names it's almost an honor to be opposed by and insulted by groomers. you aren't going to be able to fondle freely much longer.
@victorhernandeziii4371 Жыл бұрын
I suggest you go to random side quest channel the while channel has multiple videos detailing every creature and lore from the game
@that1cat9992 жыл бұрын
I’m going to say that there is actually a storyline in these videos. I’m also gonna say Curious came to this world after time dilation caused by traveling to and from 45-46b and thought; “No apocalypse is gonna stop me!!!”
@ingram8782 жыл бұрын
Wat?
@thecrowfather19192 жыл бұрын
He could be apart of that group from horizon forbidden west
@philthephilosopher92352 жыл бұрын
@@ingram878 Wut?
@warioseggs2 жыл бұрын
@@ingram878 wot?
@robinbennett16862 жыл бұрын
@@ingram878 4546b is the Subnautica planet
@alexcunradi60342 жыл бұрын
If you're interested in sci-fi or post-apocalyptic games, you have to give Zero Dawn a try. A great story, great characters, great combat, and a great open world. Can't recommend it enough.
@jimmybuba26832 жыл бұрын
What about the soundtrack is it good?
@ZalYagunRyai2 жыл бұрын
@@jimmybuba2683 some songs especially in serious cutscenes but it's like most open world games with it just existing to fill up silence
@matheussanthiago96852 жыл бұрын
@@ZalYagunRyai yeah, I got to agree with this one I'm a huge HZD fan, but I must admit that the least noticeable aspect of that game is the soundtrack everything else tho, S tier
@wildspirewarrior2112 жыл бұрын
During some of the big action scenes the music slaps but overall it's mostly ambient background music letting you take in the environment. Just beware of the jungle because I'm not going to spoil it but you really have to pay attention to your surroundings in that region
@floridaman65722 жыл бұрын
@@matheussanthiago9685 the thunder jaw/storm bird theme is rather ominous. It’s always cool when you get close to one of the two and the theme starts playing.
@fang6092 жыл бұрын
In a nutshell. Dont aproach any machine,keep distance and out of sight. Unless a certain flame haired young woman is around. Then your 100% safe. Jokes aside its really incredible what the team behind the game did with the machines in this game. Their models are incredible in the bits there made of,animated and texture, Id say these are the best robbots in any media. As for within the games context Gaia really did an incredible job rebuilding the bioshpere, and Hephaestus arming machines to defend them from humans as well as creating machines purely made for combat is qutie the sight indeed (tho they get even more dangerous and leathal further west)
@kami37262 жыл бұрын
borderlands 2 angel: COME AT ME BRO
@TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA Жыл бұрын
until you as a human remember you idiots made machines and someone with a brain invents an eletrical trap or an emp knock the robot offline and start hacking it to do what you want, then send this code to the rest
@Orangecatenergy7 ай бұрын
Looking at how rare natural redheads are in real life, she may very well be the only red head in what was known as the US.
@Enderl4ne3 ай бұрын
Unless you’re that one girl from burning shores that got squashed by a slaughter spine
@weallstilldie Жыл бұрын
My father and I, around maybe six years ago played this by taking turns. I would have difficulty climbing and I remember getting so upset while my dad pointed at the yellow highlighted spots where you could climb onto. I was so bad at the game. But it was so fun to game with my dad, who's witnessed the begging of gaming. (World of Warcraft kind of games). He shaped and mentored my gaming skills into now. I love him so much, he's one of the two men in this world that I love, the other one being my brother.
@ColonelSanders49310 ай бұрын
Absolute massive W
@KaneyoriHK2 жыл бұрын
The designs are really good, there's a lot of moving parts, and they're realistic, and it's really cool to watch them move. To me, they're simply amazing works.
@mak_attakksАй бұрын
Designed by the late great Michael Andrew Nash
@The_Story_Of_Us2 жыл бұрын
I like how the machines are built like actual animals. Not just like classic robots , but they have almost mechanical muscles like we do, built out of these metal fibres that contract and lengthen like muscles do to control movement.
@Replicaate2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the machine 'beasts' of this world. They're both wonderfully imaginative yet highly plausible given the level of technology the 'ancients' in the Horizon-verse had at their disposal, and also aesthetically quite beautiful in their way. I think my personal favorites are the Thunderjaw and Sawtooth (and the Ravager, unseen here) - their 'inspiration' being extinct predators is clear, but they're also efficiently sparsely mechanical enough to feel not just like cheesy robot versions of a dinosaur or a sabertooth.
@julzyboy89602 жыл бұрын
Really? To me they are pretty unimaginative and cheesy. I'd give them a 2/10 in creativity.
@ariescouts28832 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 bruh
@nadarith10442 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 Clearly your tastes suck
@abyssal-z2 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 you serious?
@somerandomdudeonline637 Жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 bruh they're supposed to mimic animals ofc they're going to be like that
@jackobidy2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love that Curious made a KZbin video on this video game, because it's my favorite video game of all time, and I love it when it gets this kind of recognition. I really hope he makes a sequel on the second game Horizon Forbidden west and its machines.
@LosJoshh2 жыл бұрын
Same, hopefully he’ll cover the few machines added in Frozen Winds as well
@jakomioftherose2434 Жыл бұрын
If this is your favorite game of all time then you haven't played much, have you.
@jackobidy Жыл бұрын
@@jakomioftherose2434 correction then, one of my favorite games of all time. There are fake that I have played which are better
@supercharged5-392 жыл бұрын
because shell walkers care about their cargo so much, if you break the binding holding their boxes, the shell walker will use its claw to pick it up and attempt to fasten it on its back, holding it with its claw.
@Ben_The_First2 жыл бұрын
Props to the cameraman, went to the future just to show us what the creatures will look like.
@LuDux2 жыл бұрын
"I must stay from them as far as possible" *films from under their tails*
@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Жыл бұрын
@@LuDux 😂
@floofyfluff27362 жыл бұрын
I literally started this game last week and thought that it would be cool if he made a video on it
@edoardoprevelato65772 жыл бұрын
This game is one of the best open world action adventures around. The worldbuilding is immense, and the storyline will bring you to tears
@keqingsimp21742 жыл бұрын
@@edoardoprevelato6577 every time i get to the post-credit scene i cry. ive replayed 6 times and sobek's end still get me
@edoardoprevelato65772 жыл бұрын
@@keqingsimp2174 i know, right? That woman had more balls than all NBA courts put together.
@zacharyreed23472 жыл бұрын
I love the small machine details in the game. If you watch Shell-Walkers when their cargo gets knocked off, they use some form of gravity manipulator in their claw to pick up the cargo and hold it on their backs. Snapmaws will soak in the waters, then come up on land and eject several pods of chillwater from their backs (the little empty spheres on their tail then get filled with more chillwater). So many cool small details
@samtrudeau85962 жыл бұрын
There is a similar symbiotic relationship between ostriches, zebra, and wildebeest where the ostrich acts as look out of sort
@bonkproof40862 жыл бұрын
As someone who’s gotten %100 completion on horizon, I was wondering when someone would do a video breaking down the machines like this.
@jacobcox45652 жыл бұрын
It's crazy how similar these synthetic animals are to real animals, they're the same thing, just made different from organic, carbon-based life. Like a math problem that can be solved in more than one way.
@juanarredondo97632 жыл бұрын
hephaestus was analyzing the enviroment and saw how to make a robot efective in an area, it took inspiration in the animal kingom, same as humans with some vehicles
@julzyboy89602 жыл бұрын
The problem is that they are too similar to the point that it's unrealistic and also boring to me personally. In reality these robots would have their own character, they wouldn't just be: robot rhino, robot horse, robot vulture etc. For the same reason that animals dont just look exactly like each other, even when they fill a similar niche eg: Horse/Ostrich, Crow/Bat, hippo/croc. But if anything they should be even more different since they are not limited by evolution. The only reason I can think of why they didn't consider this is that they simply don't have the creativity.
@hedgehog31802 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 Well I mean it's implied that they're created by a machine learning algorithm and it would probably have been fed data about real world animals so it's not surprising that it ends up creating somewhat similar thing. It might also have been an intentional bias in the hope that if they looked more like animals future humans would find them less threatening.
@nadarith10442 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 I'm sorry are you calling biomimicry unrealistic? wtf?
@jacobcox45652 жыл бұрын
@@julzyboy8960 you do realize designing robots based on animals would be way easier than designing unique robots to do the same thing animals do. People who build robots take a lot of inspiration from the animal kingdom, submersible robots with fins like a fish, flying drones with bird-like feet, personal companion robots that look like dogs.
@susangardini81612 жыл бұрын
The concept of machine life is rare to see! This is amazing!
@neilc.83682 жыл бұрын
I love your videos so much! I’m eagerly waiting for when part 5 of The Epic of Serina comes out, granted I’ve read so far what happens, it’s nice to hear other people share how amazing the story is.
@nenmaster52182 жыл бұрын
Telltale Atheist, i recommend him.
@donniemontoya93007 ай бұрын
Some of the coolest animation and concept design EVER. The different textures, details, and lighting effects are amazing to look at.
@MoralsInSongs Жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore how CA manages to make these videos so true to life. I'm not sitting listening to a KZbinr as they detail every step in the same monotone step-by-step feature. I'm with CA as he perilously traverses the land of Horizon, with great respect and awe to the creatures within. Amazing!
@jeremycreations86082 жыл бұрын
Not only are you good at finding interesting things, but your also incredible with storytelling and writing, every time a see one of your videos in my subscription feed I get exited because I know you found something good. Love your videos
@Pixelcakes69 Жыл бұрын
oh my god I can't escape my past self. Help me.
@katesay1559 Жыл бұрын
The uniqueness of the machines makes this game visually stunning and incredible when it comes to fighting. You really have to understand how the machines are built, what are their weaknesses and how to exploit them. Like the fact that you can make deathbringers overheat and then shoot at their cooling rods... The creators of the game did an awesome job at combining aesthetic and gameplay, and making those things interdependant.
@ThePseud0Legend2 жыл бұрын
Anyone else wanna fall asleep to this guys videos? And I don’t mean that these videos are boring or uninteresting. His voice is just so soothing and relaxing lol
@pacotaco12462 жыл бұрын
Please do one of these for the aliens in the Borderlands series. There is so much content to explore from the native life on Pandora to the mystery of the advanced Erudians
@ChaosIvanov Жыл бұрын
What intrigues me most is the fictional biology that we always imagine being more extraordinary than the real one, even though it shares intrinsic characteristics with the real ones. It must be a semiotic trap.
@IDK-df4cw2 жыл бұрын
The fact that I finished the game and I know everything about the lore of horizon zero dawn gives me something to be proud of
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@hakimdiwan51012 жыл бұрын
Can you please tell me how we got animals like machines?
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
@@hakimdiwan5101 It's a big spoiler, so you OK with that? Seriously. If you're gonna play it, it won't hit the same. You should experience it for yourself if you play the game.
@hakimdiwan51012 жыл бұрын
@@alyseleem2692 Yeah I'm fine I don't play games just want to know the concept.
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
@@hakimdiwan5101 OK. This might take a bit. So,long story short: In the mid to late 21st century, after a period of instability and global Catastrophes caused by climate change, science took off in fields like robotics, at first to create methods to help fix climate change, with simple, normal looking drones being the first kind used in this endeavour. However, after a while, people started applying this to other fields, and one of those fields was war. Under the pretense of lessening human casualties, people started creating standardised " Swarms" , machines built for war instead of humans. They weren't intelligent, if that's what you're asking. Just like the drones, they were normal, relatively speaking. The exceptions were Titan-classes, large machines which were resistant to nuclear attack and were capable of calculating battle plans. Like your computer playing chess, but better and big enough to crush fortresses. One company, Faro Robotics, sought to create a Swarm to take over the market. A perfect storm, so to speak. And so, they got to work. The end result was the Faro Swarm. The Faro Swarm was a Swarm of still-relatively normal looking machines, albeit with legs instead of wheels for locomotion over different types of terrain. They had at least three types, but the important thing is their advantages: 1. Like Striders later on, the Swarm was capable of processing biomatter into fuel, with methods adapted from 2020 military research in the US, as well as previous experiments and uses of algae and other materials. 2. Their Titan units,BRO7 Horus, were capable of gathering materials to create more of them, using the fabrication technology later used in the Cauldrons. They were also highly advanced and adaptable at their battle plans, reacting to new situations on the fly. 3. They were nigh-unhackable, and their hacking methods on other machines were nearly unstoppable, due to them using nanomachines for direct physical invasion of their targets. All in all, perfect product. Too perfect. Before you ask, no, they didn't exactly become conscious and rebel against humanity. All that happened..... Was a glitch. Specifically, in their biofuel protocols. Due to confusion regarding biofuel sources, a glitch caused the Swarm to see all beings, including their owners and humans in general, as potential biofuel. And rightly so. All biomatter can be processed. At first, it didn't really act on this urge except in frequent bouts of random conversion, like killing and absorbing trees or dolphins, but in hindsight, it was probably focusing on increasing it's numbers. By the time it's superiors ordered it to stand down after an engagement... . It killed them all. And it had enough numbers to keep going. War began, and humanity fought for the right of their survival, Operation Enduring Victory and then,succeeded..... Right? Right?! I mean, humanity is still here, right?! No. Not really. To the horror of scientists, thanks to the Swarm's previous investment in numbers and it's existing ability of self-replication and gathering biofuel from any source, it was literally impossible to stop them. They could only slow them down. Their codes would take at least fifty years for hack using their most advanced programs, thanks to using polyphasic coding. It was over. Or was it? They started a project. A project using all that Faro Robotics had managed to achieve, as well as all that money could buy, to create a system of machines to re-terraform the earth, and bring back life after the inevitable inactivation of the Faro Swarm, led by a sentient AI raised in this timeframe. The animal machines you see are that system of machines. Snapmaws clean waters. Grazers help both limit and grow more vegetation. Scrappers work to clean the scrap. Glinthawks do the same and use their coolant to clean the atmosphere. The reason all these resemble animal is that,aside from efficiency, the AI that made them had to be taught using biomimicry, imitating natural animals. It didn't have the time or ability to make it's own designs that quickly for that many kinds of drones, so it did it the easy way and imitated nature. As a sentient being,it also did this as a tribute to our world and the beings that lived in it. They are a memorial to all that we destroyed. In secret facilities, humans, plant seeds and small animals would be cloned,stored, and then spread to the wild, and so, after a few centuries of being a lifeless rock, Earth came back to life.... And that was that.
@_TSC_462 жыл бұрын
Something i realized last night was that the Longleg is not shaped after the ostrich, its based off of the Secretarybird. The 'feather crown' made of sensors on top of its head are identical to that of a Secretary bird, not to mention the stomping and jumping the machine does!
@christensolomon36792 жыл бұрын
"Crab are a pinnacle of evolution..." Ah, a learned fellow. All things will become crabs eventually.
@aceundead47502 жыл бұрын
Im glad there's a channel that delves into the biology of fictional universes, beyond just Monster Hunter (which i thoroughly enjoyed your cover of Monster Hunter's creatures and hope you do more), it's nice to see more than just that covered somewhere.
@fishbowlpig2 жыл бұрын
These machines look so cool! thank you for enlightening me about this game
@pinetorch78762 жыл бұрын
Do biology of no man's sky. It's got so much species, and even though all of it is randomly generated its interesting to see what lifeforms are on each planet
@timur52412 жыл бұрын
Should've mentioned the fact, that after you kill a certain amount of machines of specific type, they receive armor upgrades. Easily noticeable on thunderjaws' and bellowbacks' "necks" I'm not sure if that's a thing in the sequel (Forbidden West), but eh...
@i.washere2 жыл бұрын
I was in awe throughout the whole video, i was so lost in my imagination i lost the sense of time, it didnt felt like 20 minutes it was an unexplainable experience that i became very emotional when i saw the tallneck they are fascinating and magical despite their metallic look. Thank you for this curious archive you might not know this but you make my life so much better, I wish you all success and happiness ♥️
@TheFirstCurse1 Жыл бұрын
This is an amazing video that deserves millions of views. You perfectly showcased every machine and their purpose, all the while narrating it like a nature documentary. Easily one of the best videos I've ever watched.
@ebixxdracion2 жыл бұрын
The moment I saw a thunderjaw in the game, my sole goal was to make a pet out of it. Quest be damned! I wanted a pet T-rex with 50mil gatlings and rocket launchers. And by the gods I got ALL of them. (The funny part of this is that apparently Horizon was created backwards. As in, someone said "Hey let's make a game with robot animals," And they built the story backwards from there.)
@Pyrochazm2 жыл бұрын
A channel called noclip does a deep dive into the production behind the game, I highly recommend it.
@ebixxdracion2 жыл бұрын
@@Pyrochazm Thanks
@HUYI12 жыл бұрын
You can by overriding it from the cauldrons...
@ebixxdracion2 жыл бұрын
@@HUYI1 Uhm... yeah... I know... I said I got all of them. You didn't read the complete comment, did you?
@mariofan1ish2 ай бұрын
That sounds about right, honestly. The world, societies, machines and lore are all fleshed out exceptionally well and are incredibly intriguing and immersive. But the actual plotline and characters fall a bit flat
@PaladinGuy2 жыл бұрын
An interesting observation I discovered about the snapmaw; while I was once planning an ambush of a group of 3 I noticed 1 of them come on land. This one released several pods from it's body and then returned to the waters. These pods contained chillwater, meaning that the snapmaws primary contribution to the greater machine ecosystem is the production of chillwater for other machines, much like lancehorns. Also, without spoiling anything, most of the smaller animals that are still around all have a great use for humans. Boars and goats are hardy creatures that can survive in many environments and provide several useful resources (skin, horns/tusks, meat), same applies to an extent to foxes, rabbits, raccoons, geese, turkeys, salmon, and trout too.
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
Yep. Noticed it,too. They cover them like eggs. No wonder they hate it when I get too close. I stole a few pods🙂
@Tuzszo Жыл бұрын
IIRC the snapmaw's primary role in the mechosystem is actually water purification. If I had to guess, they probably were depositing chillwater canisters that were saturated with heavy metals or other pollutants for collection and reprocessing by other designs.
@shmup6955 Жыл бұрын
And then aloy just murders all of them
@librus8680 Жыл бұрын
Well done on this remarkably engaging little journey! I've loved how their designs, clearly inspired by creatures of old, fill the same roles as their fleshy progenitors, but now working as an oddly coordinated collective to manage and encourage new growth - hands of steel carefully guiding life from the ashes of a bygone era. I utterly love studying the absurd level of detail put into all of these, and I've come across some observations of my own regarding their apparent roles in this new biosphere: - Striders appear to be a species threatened with extinction, though "obsolescence" may be a better term. They've been seldom seen as of late, replaced more with Broadheads and Chargers - a pair of similar-designed herbivores with more complex designs on their heads that were not documented here. A sign that the systems that guide this biosphere are not fully governed by laws of nature: an intelligence force, or forces, can supplant a species with another as it chooses. - Shell-walkers are not only absurdly protective of their cargo, but they also possess emergency backup measures if aggressors manage to remove the heavy clamps holding their cargo in place. Their larger claw can unfurl into a backup clamp, them willingly sacrificing their offensive potential as they take a defensive stance, putting more power into their shield-generating claw while being much more wary of their assailants. - Snapmaws not only lie about in waterways to recharge in the sun, but they also appear to passively dredge up unwanted compounds in the river, refine them, store them on sacs on their backsides, and then shake them free for other machines, like Glinthawks, to carry off back to their hive-like factories. They really don't spare any effort in turning any and all unwanted elements they are tasked with cleansing and repurposing them into ways to manufacture more of themselves. - Bellowbacks may not just be transports. Their green counterparts, sloshing with huge reserves of biofuel, may also function as a means to provide controlled burns to forests that have grown beyond what their systems deem suitable. The icy variants then may act as walking fire extinguishers, ensuring the burn is properly contained. - Tallnecks appear to be malfunctioning to some sort of degree. They normally do not appear to walk in their odd circuits, since their huge disks not only function as communication arrays, but also a means to map the area and thus instruct machines on where to go and what needs doing. Whatever element that guides them is absent now, and they seem to wander in confused circles, patiently awaiting for this voice to return. The absence has been going on for quite some time, though - in some regions, the resident Tallneck has begun to bore a canyon into the ground from their constant walking.
@BusierMold582 жыл бұрын
So, guess the Archivist has been confirmed as a Timelord.
@supercharged5-392 жыл бұрын
some spoilers for the story: additionally a lot of the predatory machines (sabertooths, thunderjaws) were made specifically to kill humans because humans started hunting machines making the AI that designs them decide they weren't deserving of being alive
@darkonedbc2 жыл бұрын
Remind you another movie?
@BiggerBossN313 Жыл бұрын
@@darkonedbc?
@Autumny_Violet2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite games, next to subnautica. Although I have not finished it, and haven't played it in months. This video is awesome and so is Curious Archive! :D
@thethirdchimpanzee2 жыл бұрын
James P. Hogan did this decades ago in "Code of the Lifemaker" ("Futurama" did it too.) But in "Lifemaker,", an alien probe, crashed on Saturn's moon Titan. It was probably a type of Von Neumann machine, but it had the ability to self-repair to a certain extent, using smaller microbots and nanobots, but something happens, I believe, that wipes out the core memory of the main probe, the A.I. is destroyed, it loses it's self-awareness, it becomes just a dumb machine, and all of the little robots are left to their own devices, and so they reproduced, like cells, and some copies were not true to the original form...maybe because of a stray cosmic ray or something in the make or programing wasn't copied perfectly (a "mutation")...most were useless or detrimental...but some gave the copy an advantage that let it make more copies better...some of the micro and nanobots learned to work in tandem, and even *combine*...sometimes different types combined (basically synthetic multicellular life)...and after hundreds of thousands or millions of years later, you got a whole diverse robotic *ecosystem*, and even intelligent robotic life.
@aedanranson1092 Жыл бұрын
im gonna have to check code of the lifemaker out, thanks for the recommendation!!
@Abdullahxvii2 ай бұрын
this was the first major game after got back into gaming. i'll always have a special place in my heart for this game, and nostalgia traversing through the world. thanks so much, amazing video/series
@DarshanBhambhani2 жыл бұрын
When I first discovered your channel, I literally said I wish he does one on Horizon, and now you did, thank you
@ezmoneye76612 жыл бұрын
Was waiting for this to get added to the archive, fits perfect
@DarthBHorse2 жыл бұрын
loving the curious archivist lore
@kiplittle29 күн бұрын
I have played this game for 50+ hours and STILL I didn't realize some of the subtle functions of these machines. What an incredible game and what a great clip.
@ckinggaming5bucketmadness7662 жыл бұрын
When fighting in this game in the early game, experience is key Each creature you fight has its own abilities and size, and different weak points Of course, sometimes there are enemies you’ll need a better weapon for it to be an easy battle And some enemies require you to use every trap you have while you’re undetected, like stalkers, bellowbacks, and thunderjaws(in my experience) And others, require you to cheese the game(can you guess which one I’m talking about, it’s apart of a mission where you fight a thunderjaw that killed me multiple times before I eventually turned the difficulty all the way down to fight it)
@nenmaster52182 жыл бұрын
Telltale Atheist, i recommend him. Especially his Kat Kerr Videos if you love to laugh.
@J-manli2 жыл бұрын
Horizon IMO is the closest thing we have to an open world Monster Hunter game. We fight larger than life monsters where we are heavily rewarded for knowing the monsters' weaknesses and weakspots.
@TheGreatAukGaming2 жыл бұрын
i always wanted a walking with dinosaurs type documentary about these machines
@akumadaYT2 жыл бұрын
Ahh shit, here we go again! I'm loving the exploration of different video game's biology, and I'd love to see a biology of halo video, as it's got plenty of interesting species
@chriskim55032 жыл бұрын
I really don’t comment much, but just wanted to say I’ve been binge watching the whole channel for a few weeks, and now im just waiting on each upload! Love the content!!!
@jasonvoorhees51802 жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore the Machines and story in Horizon zero dawn
@zoroux28262 жыл бұрын
Wake up babe, new curious archive post
@garrettlich71402 жыл бұрын
O hell yeah I love this game series I’d love to see you talk to someone with mechanical engineering and robotics about this game as well as going into more detail O and a study of the tribe’s cultural evolution
@ryannovel88922 жыл бұрын
Can we all appreciate his Vocabularies??? I mean... Every words sentences were really well thought! I never get bored listening to his narration! And I also learn a lot from him! Thank you so much!
@loveforbeauty132 жыл бұрын
These videos oddly bring so much comfort to me
@rkirk2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure we'll see this channel hit 500k subs soon because the content is so consistently good. A lot of KZbin is not the best, but there are real gems like this here that keep me coming back for each new video.
@justtoms37732 жыл бұрын
Played this game recently and absolutely loved it
@vysharra2 жыл бұрын
Longlegs are Roadrunners (yes, it’s a real animal). That’s where the run-and-jump mechanism was modeled from.
@nemo17162 жыл бұрын
I HAVE AWAITED A VIDEO SUCH AS THIS FOR YEARS. Thank you so much for your work on this. To me these machines are a stand out against other robotic/mechanized animals due to the biological nature of their design, and how you can see those systems functioning in-game. All the best to you.
@Rhyme_Zil142 жыл бұрын
I open up my notifications and see this: *A HZD VIDEO* My day has been made :)
@GrayMimikyu2 жыл бұрын
This was BEAUTIFUL… I believe we DO want more of this type of videos also.
@garfieldthecat1625 Жыл бұрын
I am absolutely obsessed with Horizon: Forbidden West right now and would live to see you cover all those incredible machines too !! Great work with these videos keep it up!!
@TheaSvendsen7 ай бұрын
Two different species who coordinate/communicate with each other on their surroundings isn’t unheard of. I recall seeing a documentary where they did just that. I think it was a bird who can mimick sounds and used it to warn its buddies if a predator was nearby. Nature never ceases to amaze me!!
@noobiusmaximus63142 жыл бұрын
I thought a fun episode would be the strange hybrid animals of Avatar (the last airbender). It doesn't quite fit the theme of the channel, but they are cool designs.
@mineterragaming17962 жыл бұрын
you should do a documentary on Ark: Survival Evolved. There are plenty of creatures to observe
@tjarkschweizer2 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean plenty of bullshit to observe? Anyway Ark doesn't have interesting AI. The creatures just walk around mindlessly. They don't have any additional animations. Even the combat isn't entertaining. Not to mention that the game lack's actual ecosystems. It simply wouldn't make for a good video.
@Xenozfan22 жыл бұрын
I've been WAITING for this video! HZD has one of the most unique "bio"spheres of any game I've seen. Can't wait for the next one!
@BabyShenanigans2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video and one of my favorite games of all time! I do wish you had gone into additional detail about the habits of some of the machines - like how the Snapmaws purify water and periodically jettison canisters if you hang around and watch them for a while.
@hawkeyestegosaurus56802 жыл бұрын
This was so cool! I always wanted to play Horizon but I don't have a console and my PC just isn't up for the task. So pumped for the next part!
@mho...2 жыл бұрын
Always like the Documentaries taking a fictional World serious! (specially with such a well fleshed-out Universe like ZeroDawn) , nicely done! Could have been a TemplinInstitute one 😅
@oladunjoyedavid751510 ай бұрын
8:02 i bully sawtooths for the fun of it 😂, but one swipe from them always almost knocks me out
@LuckyTheCat2569 ай бұрын
Yeah sawtooths, slitherfangs, clamberjaws, and thunderjaws are some of the more annoying machines to deal with imo 😂
@livingglowstick13376 ай бұрын
@@LuckyTheCat256thunderjaws are easy destroy all their ranged weapons as you first attack destroy their armour on the underside and just keep under then destroying their power cells basically kills them on any other difficulty but hard and suoer hard but even then they are almost dead
@LuckyTheCat2566 ай бұрын
@@livingglowstick1337 yeah I usually try to destroy their laser bombs first or else I’ll get blasted 😩
@arturosandovalsaito27042 жыл бұрын
I never expected you to do a video about the "biology" of these robots. Good job.
@acemarvel15642 жыл бұрын
When life found its way for millions of years Technology seeked to be far superior
@lucasrodillo67392 жыл бұрын
Horizon, as a a franchise, is fascinating. The cultures are unlike anything in history, and the ecology has verisimilitude
@go.catboy.go_piss Жыл бұрын
please please PLEASE do a full every-machine biology deepdive,,, i would watch it SO . MUCH .
@tablescissors2 жыл бұрын
You're excellent at reading, the speed and tone of your voice is soothing, but still clear ...it compliments the topics, but does not dominate. This is my new favorite channel.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
What kind of biology would come from a living organism made of gases and electricity? Can we get a planet of self-aware intelligent storm clouds? Or maybe even flood a normal storm cloud full of nano-machines to animate it artificially.
@floridaman65722 жыл бұрын
That’d be interesting but I feel like the problem would be getting down the shape of the organism. A creature made of gas would be more effective without a specific form than with one, this would make differentiating between different species a difficult and boring task. Not to mention a living entity made of gas is likely not possible. Interesting idea tho!
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
@@floridaman6572 . Well alternatively you can make them like biological balloons. Solid skin wrapped around a big gaseous brain..... but then I would wonder how they can eat and reproduce.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
@@floridaman6572 . They probably only need one single species. And the idea was already for them to be amorphous.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
@@floridaman6572 . Ah well NORMALLY yes it probably would be hard for gaseous life to exist. But maybe future nano-machines can build and animate a mass of gases.
@floridaman65722 жыл бұрын
@@zombiedemon1762 it’s still a cool idea, I was just saying that it would be difficult to work with. I’d love to see someone pull it off though.
@bagea2 жыл бұрын
you should do an episode about the eternal cylinder
@vongaming5753 Жыл бұрын
11:13 carcinisation in machine evolution, i bloody love it.
@paulrichardson25542 жыл бұрын
I love this channel.
@orange_turtle34122 жыл бұрын
Despite their synthetic nature, these machines do behave as animals in pretty much every way. Its even canon that some are capable of reproducing and creating new machines.
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
Whoah! slow down there, buddy! I know they can gather the materials for making other machines, but is there really a machine that can canonically make more machines? I've played the games, but then, there are comics. 🤔
@winoblio2 жыл бұрын
@@alyseleem2692 that machine is the Horus, which has the ability to create more scarabs (corruptors) and kopeshes (deathbringers). The Horus is part of FAS's chariot line, not one of Hephaestus'. Edit: by Hephaestus I also mean Gaia
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
@@winoblio Yeah. Good point. But I meant the other machines.
@winoblio2 жыл бұрын
@@alyseleem2692 as far as I know there aren't any reproducing machines made by Gaia/ Hephaestusbut that sounds like an interesting idea for a dlc machine.
@alyseleem26922 жыл бұрын
@@winoblio Indeed. Scary,too...... I wouldn't wanna fight that.
@turtlestheturtle2 жыл бұрын
I literally just got into horizon. I was so interested in what they robots’ biology was. Perfect timing!
@xavierdeal7547 Жыл бұрын
I love that he casually says time is meaningless to him in the pursuit of knowledge
@apersonontheinternet6018 Жыл бұрын
The archivist is just an immortal dimension-hopper at this point
@lohiboi63312 жыл бұрын
Do a video on the organisms of Hoxes IV from ”Deep Rock Galactic” the game has many biomes with unique organisms.
@ANDREALEONE952 жыл бұрын
Rock And Stone!
@jdfigs59162 жыл бұрын
Awesome I love horizon zero dawn
@HooplaCakeMace2 жыл бұрын
One of the most underrated fictional ecosystems I have ever seen, and an excellent game as well. Great video!!
@mrmosty5167 Жыл бұрын
The Tallneck, and climbing one, is one of the greatest things in gaming ever
@wendylacey27452 жыл бұрын
Are you going to make a part 2?
@wendylacey27452 жыл бұрын
Also do you think you can do a biology video on the machines in the Forbidden West?
@wendylacey27452 жыл бұрын
And please tell me you will finish the Monster Hunter biology series?
@horriblepuppets12792 жыл бұрын
love your content keep it up!!
@mr.stuffdoer84832 жыл бұрын
I think I found Sylens’ KZbin channel. Jokes aside, the stuff like this and the Subnautica videos are really fun
@ThoughtPotato2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Love the "field notes" angle.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
Is it possible for gaseous life forms to exist? The human body is like 60% water right? But what if we were 60% neon gas?
@Voidsworn2 жыл бұрын
I don't think there would be a "we". Water and neon have very different properties.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
@@Voidsworn . Then how about something similar to a jellyfish but with gases where an actual jellyfish would have liquid? A biological balloon basically.
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
I would love a planet of self-aware intelligent storm clouds..................... ......or some kinda masses of super colorful bio-luminescent electrically charged gases. A planet of flying colorful glowing gaseous brains.
@Voidsworn2 жыл бұрын
@@zombiedemon1762 well, hydrogen gas can be released by known biological chemical processes, so a jellyfish of sorts (still having water as all life Earth requires) but having bladders filled with hydrogen allowing them to float around could be thing
@zombiedemon17622 жыл бұрын
@@Voidsworn . Awesome. Thanks. On a very non-earth-like environment can neon atoms and other gases form the kind of atomic bonds required for life? Would one type of atom need to work like glue for the other atoms?
@Arachnid-Man2 жыл бұрын
Did you get the Lego Tall Neck?
@Ignisan_66 Жыл бұрын
SPOILERS: The only reason all machines are aggressive and combat machines even exist is because the AI HEPHAESTUS responsible for managing cauldrons and making machines uncoupled from GAIA as a result of a mysterious signal. HEPHAESTUS now independed AI got angry that humans were hunting its machines so it made them agressive, when the hunting didn't stop it began building combat machines designed to kill humans.